Black Bean + Brown Rice Patties
w/ Tomato Salsa
Ingredients
- 2 Tbls olive oil
- ½ onion chopped
- 2 clove garlic chopped
- 2 cups black beans cooked drained and lightly smashed
- 1 cups cooked brown rice or any other grain you have lying around
- 1 small zucchini coarsely grated
- 1 + 1/3 Tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 6 ounce boiled yellow potatoes smashed Yes skin and all
- 1 + 1/2 cups fresh bread crumbs or Panko
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Salsa
- 1 Large jalapeno pepper finely chopped
- 2 cups chopped tomatoes
- ¼ cup chopped red onion
- ⅓ cup chopped cilantro
- ¼ cup sliced spring onions
- Juice of 1/4 lime + some hot sauce
- *Salt
Instructions
- Cook your garlic and onions in olive oil. In a large bowl combine the next 7 ingredients. Add onion mixture . Mash this with your hands until you are able to form it into balls that stay together well. Create about 10 balls and flatten into patties. Place bread crumbs in a bowl then gently one at a time coat your patties with the crumbs. Fry these in two batches using a few Tbls of oil for each . Flipping over after they brown.
- For the Salsa just combine all the ingredients * sprinkle salt over top when serving or you will have soup.
